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Dectagonal Bowl, Famille-Verte Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1753-54

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions3 15/16 in. (10 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.121

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 3

DescriptionThis is a Early Worcester Decagonal Small Bowl with flaring shape and painted in an expanded famille-verte palette of green, blue, iron-red, yellow, grisaille and touches of rose on the front with a bird perched on the trailing stem of a flowering plant, and on the reverse with a stylized peony branch between two insects, the interior with another flowering branch beneath a green trellis diaper border interrupted with five demi-flowerhead panels on the flaring rim.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II